A Tribute To My Sister

No one knows and understand me as well as you do,

No one has shared so much pain in my life with me, besides you,

No one quite understands the things we've been through,

Hence why, no one can love you the way that I do.

We laugh together,

Oh, we cry together!

We fight together,

Then unite together.

You were my very first best friend,

So there is no distance far enough to take my love away

There is no amount of money large enough to make me ever betray,

This friendship we've built since I was four years old,

The memories and secrets we share, I'll never unfold.

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Yes, I am a woman of many talents and I do like writing poetry as well, but I haven't written poetry since I was in Grade 12 (maybe I'll pick it up again).

But, let me tell you all about MY sister. Growing up it was only the two of us, four years apart in age. We fought ALOT, but when nighttime came, my sister always would sneak in my room to sleep with me because she was afraid of the dark, and I let her. I love my sister. And trust me when I say I would go to WAR for my sister. When I needed her the most, she was there for me. There are times now, where I still call her just to cry. With MY sister, I can be vulnerable. I can tell her how I fell for the same type of guy, AGAIN, and she never judges me. I can tell her about my dreams and my ambitions, and she supports me.

What you all may not know is that when I moved back home from Canada four months pregnant with Sapphyre, my sister and I spent months sharing a one bedroom apartment with a mutual friend of ours (if you're reading this, I cannot thank you enough for your sacrifice!) when we had nowhere to go, when even our own BLOOD turned us away. We stuck together and held each other down. When we did move in with our cousins and had to sleep on couch cushions on the floor for a short period of time, she rode through it with me! She never once complained, and although I was the one pregnant and out there working, she never once asked for more than she needed, and we got by.

When we finally moved into our own place TWO months before Sapphyre was born, my sister took care of us. She covered rent, bought our car, paid the bills, and so on! When Sapphyre was born, my sister became the father of my child, of her niece. She took over night shifts for me, bottle fed and diaper changed Sapphyre for me. She babysat Sapphyre for me when I finally started working as an insurance agent, and she never once complained.

And so, I swear on my life, when I get my life 100% together (finish this undergrad and then graduate degree), anything she needs, I'll provide, because when I was at my lowest she held me up. When I needed her the most, she was there.

It is so true that when you have a sister, you have a friend for life and I am so lucky God gave her to me. He knew I would need her unconditional love to pull me through my dark days and He knew she would be my forever and a day.

So to my sister, I know you are reading this, but I don't tell you quite enough just how much I love you, and how much you mean to me, but I just told the whole world.

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